Mirza Waheed (born 1974) is an Indian-British novelist and former journalist. He plays cricket for the Writers Cricket Club “Authors XI” team, which consists of British writers.
Wiki/Biography
Mirza Waheed was born in 1974 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India (age 49 in 2023). He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines including the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Al Jazeera English, The New York Times and Guernica. Mirza Waheed worked at the BBC for ten years from 2001 to 2011. In 2011, he quit his job to start a full-time writing career and wrote his second book. Currently, he lives in London with his family.
Mirza Wahid as a young man
family
Parents and siblings
There is not much information available about his parents and siblings.
wife and children
Mirza Waheed is married with two children, a thirteen-year-old son and a nine-year-old daughter.
Mirza Wahid’s childhood daughter
religion
Mirza Wahid believed in Islam.
Signature/Autograph
Profession
books
Collaborator(2012)
The plot of Mirza Wahid’s novel “The Collaborator” is set in his native Kashmir, a region torn apart by violence between Pakistan and India. With a highly sensitive and compassionate indignation that goes beyond the verbal gestures of India and Pakistan, Mirza Waheed reveals what it means to live in a region where the competent government sees you as an internal enemy and the neighboring governments see you as a strategically useful person What. puppet.
The Book of Gold Leaves(2014)
Mirza Wahid’s second novel, The Book of Golden Leaves, was published in 2014. He creates a beautiful, classic story of forbidden love in a country disrupted by war, bloodshed, and politics. The Book of Gold Leaves is a classic story with heartbreakingly relatable scenes. The story of Roohi and Faiz is a story of love and spiritual unity amidst the chaos of death, destruction and rebellion. Alice Albinia, a reporter for the British business daily Financial Times, reviews the film, which tells the story of a Sunni and a Shia who fall in love in the turbulent Kashmir region of the 1990s. story. She called it,
It is a haunting example of how many people who called Kashmir home at the end of the last century were unable to live a normal life. “
Tell Her Everything (2019)
Mirza Wahid’s third novel, Tell Her Everything, was published in January 2019. The book depicts a father-daughter relationship: a father is preparing to reveal his morally objectionable past to his adult daughter and send her to boarding school. She went to school as a child.
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- In 2011, Mirza Waheed’s book The Collaborator was honored by the New Statesman and newspapers such as The Telegraph, Business Standard and The Telegraph of India Book of the Year title. In the same year, The Collaborator was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize and the Shakti Bhatt Prize.
- In 2012, Mirza Waheed’s novel The Collaborators was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize.
- Mirza Wahid’s second novel, The Book of Golden Leaves, was shortlisted for the DSC South Asian Literary Prize, one of the most prestigious international literary awards in 2016 focusing exclusively on South Asian writing.
- In 2019, Mirza Waheed won the Hindu Literary Award for her third novel, Tell Her All.
Facts/Trivia
- Mirza Waheed loves photography and often posts pictures of nature and animals on social media.
- Mirza Waheed refused to participate in the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2019. He would rather spend his time caring for his children than embarking on an ambitious book tour. Mirza Wahid said in an interview,
I don’t go to many festivals. I stay home with my two kids. I won’t get a second chance. My daughter won’t be four anymore. I’ve grown up and realized that’s the most important thing. The choice is very clear. ”
- In February 2019, Mirza Waheed participated in a book review event for his novel “Tell Her Everything” in New Delhi, India.
Author Mirza Waheed reviews Tell Her Everything in New Delhi, India
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